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Amy Halloran

Amy Halloran

Public-Access Gourmet

by Amy Halloran May 2, 2013

  “When you’re tying up the carrot, be careful that the cheese doesn’t slip out,” my son Felix said from his highchair. He was about 4 or 5, and we were just done with a Saturday ...

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Troy-Bilt, Troy-Grown

by Amy Halloran April 17, 2013

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I don’t get enough chances to sing the song of a certain piece of Troy’s history: Garden Way and the Troy-Bilt Rototiller. I’m not a big gearhead, but this little machine left a legacy on ...

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Recipe for Recovery

by Amy Halloran November 1, 2012

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It’s a strip of solid buildings carved hollow by industry that blew away: Main Street in Gloversville is gray. It is populated by stores selling things that need new lives, like used clothes and jewelry, ...

On the Threshold

by Amy Halloran October 4, 2012

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Back in the late 1990s, Don Lewis went to Lightning Tree Farm to buy organic feed for his chickens, and saw that Alton Earnhart was growing wheat. The farmer offered him a bag of flour, ...

The Original Corner Store

by Amy Halloran September 27, 2012

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  Cathe Casey lives around the corner from the Niskayuna Co-op Market, where she is a board member. Twenty years ago when her home burned, before the fire trucks had even left the street, the co-op ...

No Farmer is an Island

by Amy Halloran September 20, 2012

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“I used to be a faceless producer,” David Rowley says, leaning down in a greenhouse to cut a handful of arugula. He shares this food as he shares the story of his life with plants, ...

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Counting Your Cantaloupes

by Amy Halloran August 23, 2012

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A bearded man in a straw hat, dark pants and suspenders drives his horses under the roof, but no one looks at him, or the boxes of produce on his wagon, yet. All eyes are ...

From These Tiny Grains

by Amy Halloran August 2, 2012

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A copper mushroom cap with a tall smokestack on a flatbed: hobbit home? No, a beautiful wood-fired oven, more than six-feet in diameter. Wood smoke laces the morning Maine air, and I keep looking for a ...

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Pack Your Picnic

by Amy Halloran June 7, 2012

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Summer meals are best taken on the wing, or at least, out of the house. Sure, you can grab Italian mix subs, but Sovrana is only sometimes on the way to your destination. I love ...

Growing Uncertainties

by Amy Halloran May 17, 2012

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After a very warm spring, temperatures dove at the end of April and threatened grape buds at Natural Selection Farm Winery in Washington County. Ken Denberg, like other owners of orchards and vineyards, watched the ...

Anti-Frack Attack

by Amy Halloran May 17, 2012

By 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, people filled the million-dollar staircase at the Capitol. They were holding signs and listening to speakers. Mark Ruffalo’s voice moved over the carved stone like the space was a church, ...

Farm-to-Bakery

by Amy Halloran May 3, 2012

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Where can you find a piñata shaped like a piece of toast? At the grand opening of All Good Bakers’ new location. Britin and Nick Foster asked Annine Everson to make the piñata, which echoes Steve ...

Farewell to an Albany Icon

by Amy Halloran February 16, 2012

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Last Wednesday morning, the Miss Albany Diner was two days shy of closing—and slammed. People packed in like sardines at the counter, and the wait staff steered plates around winter coats that puffed out from ...

For The Farmers

by Amy Halloran February 1, 2012

  Two upcoming actions at the Capitol highlight the growing concern over farm issues in New York state and in the nation. Wednesday (Feb. 8) will be a statewide day of action organized by Food & Water ...

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Frack No

by Amy Halloran January 26, 2012

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  On Monday, more than 600 New Yorkers came to Albany to address their legislators and call for a ban on hydrofracking. More than that number gathered in the Legislative Office Building for a rally before ...

DOA at the DEC

by Amy Halloran January 19, 2012

OccupyAlbany, Capital District Against Fracking, and Water Equality staged a die-in at the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) building last Thursday (Jan. 12). People wore yellow hazardous waste suits, held signs and chanted slogans, pausing ...

Hot, Sweaty and Out of Breath

by Amy Halloran January 19, 2012

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For those of us who didn’t fall in love with a sport in school, learning to use our bodies is a lifelong process. I spent my late teens and 20s pursuing physical intensities, but not ...

The Farmer and the Well

by Amy Halloran November 22, 2011

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Last Thursday, anti-drilling contingents held a press conference in Binghamton before the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s hearing on fracking. One of the speakers, ecologist Sandra Steingraber, held up a mason jar of ...

Over the River and Through My Life

by Amy Halloran November 10, 2011

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Thanksgiving is glued to America as surely as baseball and apple pie. Even if you feel uncomfortable about celebrating a mythical meal that represents the appropriation of the better part of a continent, you’ll likely ...

Bakers’ Square

by Amy Halloran October 20, 2011

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On a bright, warm September Sunday, people stroll and shop amid the ring of tents and vendors that constitute the farmers market in the park behind Hubbard Hall in Cambridge. Some of them wander over ...

Cooking Up Community

by Amy Halloran September 22, 2011

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Like “a rock band of chefs”—that’s how Martin Ping, director of Hawthorne Valley Farm, described the Chef’s Consortium when the group recently did a gig there. Yes, these chefs gig just like bands, and they ...

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Farm Aid 2011

by Amy Halloran September 22, 2011

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Farmers are still coping with the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene, clearing debris and reorganizing greenhouses cluttered by floods—if the greenhouse didn’t wash away altogether. Many farmers have documented crop losses with pictures, and brought ...

Water, Water, Everywhere

by Amy Halloran August 31, 2011

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While the overall impact of Tropical Storm Irene on regional agriculture can’t be measured yet, the blow the floods dealt to area farms is very apparent. The Farm Bureau is currently working with state and ...

Fair Trade

by Amy Halloran August 17, 2011

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Tequila infused with strawberries and raspberries. Spicy dill pickles. Jalapeño jelly. Peach-raspberry crisp. Granola. Pesto. Smores. Whoopie pies and a dozen eggs. What’s this, a shopping list? Nope. These are the things people brought to ...

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Woes of the Pioneer

by Amy Halloran July 28, 2011

The Pioneer Market in Troy is struggling to stay afloat, and not hiding it. Last week the Troy Community Food Cooperative sent a notice to its owners detailing some of the financial woes the store ...